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Columbus City Counsel talk · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I noticed on your Facebook page, Zachary, that you posted
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  Speaker 1: doing radio stuff, posted a nice picture of yourself there,
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  Speaker 1: got your whole nogget in the picture. That was good
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  Speaker 1: you took. That was But Mitch, Mitch replied to your picture,
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  Speaker 1: he said, hey, listening from you, Cyrus. Tell Chuck. I said, hi,
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  Speaker 1: And that's been four minutes ago, and you still haven't
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  Speaker 1: told me that. Mitch said hi, And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why I posted that. Yeah, I don't really post on Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: but I haven't went back on since then, so I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. Mitch. Well, you need to go back on
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  Speaker 1: because Mitch said to tell me hi, and you didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell me. You saw it yourself. Well, but if Mitch
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  Speaker 1: says that, you do it, man, Okay, sorry Mitch, I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm gonna have to get you retrained. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to go back to school. No, yes, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so anyway, Yeah, switching gears and going into power hour
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  Speaker 1: mode now and the number remains the same eight to
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  Speaker 1: one WTV in. I was going through by the before
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  Speaker 1: we get started with the real stuff. I was going
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  Speaker 1: through some old stuff over the weekend, old studio stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Found cassette tapes, some cassette tapes that I've got it.
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  Speaker 1: Check them out, the tape inside the cassettes because they
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  Speaker 1: were in cases remarkably in good shape, which I'm surprised
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  Speaker 1: after all these years, because they are Certron Cirtron cassettes.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was buying in the seventies when I
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  Speaker 1: was just a kid. Mom and Dad got me my
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  Speaker 1: first first tape recorder for Christmas when I think I
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  Speaker 1: was eleven, if I'm not mistaken, and uh, it was
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  Speaker 1: a Lloyd's tape recorder, just a little cassette player, but
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  Speaker 1: I used to use it to record with the microphone.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It had an actual microphone incord with it,
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  Speaker 1: and I'd record stuff off the radio all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Except being me, I wasn't just recording songs off the radio.
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  Speaker 1: I was recording the DJs too. And I'm hoping, I'm
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  Speaker 1: hoping that some of these Sirtron tapes are the tapes
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  Speaker 1: that I did that on because if so, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a blast. You may not see me for a
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  Speaker 1: few days radio. Yeah, I was like I was, I
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  Speaker 1: was twelve, eleven, twelve years old. You've got a break.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to let me listen. You've got to let
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  Speaker 1: me hear you know, I had my favorites back then,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and if that's what some of this stuff is,
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  Speaker 1: that would be awesome. Just because I told you I
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  Speaker 1: sense a kid. I wanted to do this and it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a wonderful era. But everybody used to you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have the microphone there, and if you heard the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of a song you really like, you'd release the
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  Speaker 1: palls button to record that song open air with a microphone.
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  Speaker 1: And that was our technology back then. There was no
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  Speaker 1: Amazon Music, there was no Spotify, no digital downloads, but
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to make your own little mixtape of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But I found that I was I was so interested
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  Speaker 1: in what the people on the air were doing that
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  Speaker 1: the half the time I was recording them. Even as
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  Speaker 1: an adult, when we would take, you know, a weekend
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  Speaker 1: drive somewhere or whatever, I'd have a boombox in the
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  Speaker 1: front seat of the car with me listening to stations
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  Speaker 1: and you know, other cities, other states, whatever, not listening
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  Speaker 1: the music. When they got to the breaks, the DJ
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  Speaker 1: was doing their talking. They're commercials. I recorded commercials because
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  Speaker 1: I was a big production nut. The production people are
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  Speaker 1: the people who actually put the sounds together and create
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  Speaker 1: the commercials. And I wanted to hear little the tricks
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  Speaker 1: and the little inspirations. So I found these old cassettes
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  Speaker 1: and I'm really I'm excited about it, very cool. I
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  Speaker 1: also did what I did, talk with my grandmother on
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  Speaker 1: the front porch, and I think she was about ninety
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  Speaker 1: at the time, so she would have been remembering back
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  Speaker 1: to you know, like eighteen eighteen ninety five, eighteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight somewhere in there, and I remember her sitting and
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  Speaker 1: telling me stories and all kinds of stuff. And if
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  Speaker 1: one of the wow if one of those cassettes is
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't have the you know, the wherewithal the
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  Speaker 1: forethought to preserve that stuff because I was just a
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  Speaker 1: kid doing recordings, but interviewing Grandma's on her front porch,
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  Speaker 1: if that'll be monumental too. I get so fired up
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  Speaker 1: over the strangest things. Just little stuff like that really
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  Speaker 1: does it for me. Columbus City Council. I talked a
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  Speaker 1: little bit last night about Columbus City Council two million
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  Speaker 1: dollars of your dollars that they agreed to pay Franklin
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  Speaker 1: County for jailing inmates. I questioned last night, why we
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  Speaker 1: needed a vote for this, Why it wasn't just a
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  Speaker 1: budget item, because you know, you have to pay the jail,
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff's department for holding prisoners. We don't have a
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  Speaker 1: Columbus jail. We've got the Franklin County jail, so we
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  Speaker 1: know every year we have to do that. And I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't understand why it wasn't already done, why it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just budgeted and paid because we know we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to do it well today. The City of Columbus
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  Speaker 1: not a sanctuary city. We are not a sanctuary city.
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  Speaker 1: They said it. They minute were not a sanctuary city.
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  Speaker 1: We just happened to look and act like one. The
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  Speaker 1: City of Columbus had been withholding the money. They knew
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  Speaker 1: they'd had to pay it, but they were withholding it.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't distribute it as a budget item because have
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  Speaker 1: you already heard this, You know the story, because they
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  Speaker 1: had concerns about how the Franklin County Sheriff's Department dealt
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  Speaker 1: with ice and immigration issues. That they were concerned that
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants who were detained in the jail after being
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  Speaker 1: arrested by the City of Columbus, that the Sheriff's department
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  Speaker 1: might call ICE and say, hey, we got an illegal
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  Speaker 1: alien here, broke the law, and they might get him
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  Speaker 1: picked up by the Feds and departed. And so they
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  Speaker 1: were going to pay until the Sheriff's department, I guess
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  Speaker 1: promised we won't call Ice. In a letter, according to
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  Speaker 1: Channel ten's website here, in a letter, Sheriff Baldwin said
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  Speaker 1: the Sheriff's office would stop would stop taking prisoners that
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  Speaker 1: were charged with city code violations if the city does
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  Speaker 1: not pay by May first. Earlier this month, city council
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  Speaker 1: members tabled they vote that means they put it aside
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  Speaker 1: on a contract with the Frankly County Correctional Sinners. Council
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  Speaker 1: members said they had concerns about how the facilities interact
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  Speaker 1: with US Immigration and Customs enforcement. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, our responsibility is to the residents of this city,
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  Speaker 1: and that includes ensuring every person feels safe interacting with
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  Speaker 1: our systems, regardless of where they are born. These are
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  Speaker 1: still important questions we need answers to regarding the Franklin
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office and its policies involving foreign born residents
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  Speaker 1: and notifications to US Immigration and Customs enforcement. That's council
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  Speaker 1: Member Emmanuel Remy. May I suggest counselmen that your duty
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  Speaker 1: is not to the residents of Columbus, but to the
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  Speaker 1: citizens of Columbus. May I suggest counselmen that you are
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  Speaker 1: a city body and not a county body. You are
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  Speaker 1: not a member of the Sheriff's department. You are not
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  Speaker 1: a member of the law enforcement community. Therefore, it is
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  Speaker 1: none y'all business how law enforcement conducts law enforcement, as
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  Speaker 1: long as they remain within the law and within the
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  Speaker 1: boundaries set forth by the United States Constitution and the
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  Speaker 1: Constitution of the Great State of Ohio, home of frans Pies.
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  Speaker 1: All you need do, councilmen, is pay the damn bill.
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  Speaker 1: Not asking too much, not asking to now think about
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  Speaker 1: in any other scenario, any other scenario you Joe Q
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Sight or Joe and Q Columbus Sight. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to you too. I'm not paying my cell phone bill
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  Speaker 1: until I can be sure my cell phone company isn't
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  Speaker 1: supporting abortion rate. Really, you better pay the damn cell
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  Speaker 1: phone bill or your cell phone's getting cut off. You
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  Speaker 1: don't get a say when you are receiving a service
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  Speaker 1: from someone else unless you own someone else. They are
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  Speaker 1: going to do things the way that they do them,
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  Speaker 1: and you are going to pay for the service that
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  Speaker 1: you are getting, or you don't get the service. It's
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  Speaker 1: that easy. It's that easy. You try paying of not
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  Speaker 1: paying somebody what money you owe them, gas company, Let
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  Speaker 1: your company pay your water bill. Tell the City of Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: you know what till you put that statue back up
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  Speaker 1: in front of city Hall. I don't. You didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the constitutional right to take it down. I'm not paying
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  Speaker 1: my water bill. I hope you like staking, because you
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  Speaker 1: won't be taking a shower. Once again. The City of
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  Speaker 1: Columbus shows us all that it is being run by
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people that think they are far more
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  Speaker 1: important in the cosmos than they are. You are a
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  Speaker 1: Columbus city council. You are not a county council. You
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  Speaker 1: do not dictate to the sheriff, an elected official who
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  Speaker 1: is accountable to the people of the county, how he
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  Speaker 1: enforces the law and with what law enforcement agencies he
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  Speaker 1: will or will not interact. Councilmen, Emmanuel Remy, the arrogance
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  Speaker 1: of you people, the absolute arrogance. Do you not see it? Am?
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  Speaker 1: I out here on an island, all by myself. Do
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  Speaker 1: you not see it? Columbus City Council thinks they can
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  Speaker 1: control what Arizona does, what Donald Trump does. They want
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  Speaker 1: to take a stance, issue a position on every damn thing.
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  Speaker 1: Go fill the potholes, pick up the trash, keep the
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  Speaker 1: water free of bacteria and another crap that will kill us,
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  Speaker 1: and put the statue back in front of city Hall.
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  Speaker 1: That's your job. The rest is not, or maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: just me.